\Flap"drag`on\, n.
1. A game in which the players catch raisins out burning
   brandy, and swallow them blazing. --Johnson.
2. The thing thus caught and eaten. --Johnson.
         Cakes and ale, and flapdragons and mummer's plays,
         and all the happy sports of Christians night. --C.
                                               Kingsley.

\Flap"drag`on\, v. t.
To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour. [Obs.]
      See how the sea flapdragoned it.         --Shak.